School pride will be swelling among University of California, Davis, students as they start fall classes Wednesday (Sept. 24).
The campus tied for No. 9 among the nation’s top public universities and earned accolades for innovation, social mobility and more in the 2026 U.S. News Best Colleges rankings, published Monday (Sept. 22).
This is the fifth consecutive year the campus has been ranked among the media outlet’s top 10 public universities.
